Re: Overlays and elisp code

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Feb 1, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Dan Davison wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> maybe just header in the default value to keep the echo area open for
>> error messages?
>
> Absolutely. But if you prefer, we could just do away with the echo- 
> area
> message entirely. That would have the advantage of leaving the user
> interface unchanged.
>
> With the default as '(header), my UI change only makes sense if we
> believe that an appreciable number of users will disable the header
> message and activate the echo-area message in its place.

There are people who hate the header line IIRC.  But I guess you are  
right - once people are ready to remove the header line for this  
application, they will probably have memorized it.

I remember that I started with the echo area and introduced the header  
line because people were asking how to get out of there, so I needed  
something more persistent.

So I guess if the header line is the default, I'd be fine with  
removing the echo area message altogether.

- Carsten